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Now here's our star, Perry Como.
Thank you very much.
Well, we'd like to come in and sort of open up our sample case of top tunes for radio
and TV and I have some very wonderful demonstrators with me, the Fontaines, Mitchell Ayers, Dick
Stark and of course, unlike some salesmen, we come to your door, we don't give away any
free brushes, so we hope sincerely that you don't give us the brush.
Oh no!
Oh yes, that's a joke.
Our first offering tonight is an old classic arranged for sort of a best pocket symphony
and four voices.
We hope you like it.
Mitch, please.
Way down in New Orleans, in the land of the dream, see, there's the Garden of Eden, that's
what I mean.
Three old babies with flashing eyes, softly whisper with tender sighs.
Stop!
We want to give your lady fair a little smile.
Oh, won't you stop?
You bet your life you'll linger there a little while.
There is heaven right here on earth with those beautiful queens, way down yonder in New Orleans.
Oh, won't you give your lady fair a little smile.
You bet your life you'll linger there a little while.
They've got ankles right here on earth wearing little blue jeans, way down yonder in New
Orleans.
Today, you hear these three words everywhere.
Oh, won't you give your lady fair a little smile.
The smoke today is the best cigarette ever made, and best for you.
The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly.
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly.
Then you and I came wandering by, and lost in a sigh were we.
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly.
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly.
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside.
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly.
Da da da da dee da, you took my lips, you took my love so tenderly.
Thank you.
Truthfully, friends, I don't know what to say about this next thing, but if you'll take
my advice, you will creep or crawl to the nearest easy chair and just kind of brace
yourself, because the orchestra's going to take the lid off of a musical bundle from
Britain called The Creep.
Creep.
Now, in case you ever, you want to try it, our choreographer, Lee Morrison, and Pete
Gladke are going to kind of demonstrate the thing for you.
Are you ready, Mitchell? Lee?
Creep.
You've seen them in movies, in supper clubs, and on TV, and of course, it's Peter
Lynd Hayes and Mary Healey, America's favorite husband-and-wife comedy team.
are typical of smokers everywhere who are saying Chesterfields for me.
Peter goes for the king size.
Yes, I like a longer smoke, so naturally I go for the kings.
And of course, Chesterfield is the only cigarette for me.
Mary likes regulars.
Yes, I've been smoking Chesterfield regulars for about seven years now.
They have a fine taste, and they're good and mild.
Chesterfields for me.
You hear it everywhere.
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The Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made,
and best for you.
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♪ Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise.
All lost in a wonderland.
A stranger in paradise.
If I stand starry-eyed, that's a danger in paradise.
For models who stand beside an angel like me.
I saw your face.
And I ascended.
Out of the commonplace.
Into the realm.
Somewhere in space.
I hang suspended until I know.
There's a chance that you care.
Don't you answer the fervent prayer of a stranger in paradise.
Don't send me in dark despair from all that I hunger for.
But open your angel's arms to the stranger in paradise.
And tell him that he need be a stranger no more.
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Thank you very much.
I hope you get your shots, ladies.
Good night.
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